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The mourning after : loss and longing among midcentury American men
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- Creator
- John Ibson
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2018
- Physical Details
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- xviii, 260 pages ; 27 cm
- ISBNs
- 022657671X, 9780226576541, 9780226576688, 022657654X, 022657668X, 9780226576718
- OCLC
- on1061503067, on1019840637
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Putting space between men: male relationships in everyday photography at midcentury -- War as a cultural timeout: the gallery and shifting boundaries of male belonging -- Back to normal: cultural work in the erasure of John Horne Burns -- What it took: Gore Vidal and the high price of midcentury manliness -- Mourning the loss: the "great sullenness" and the contours of American manhood -- Coda: bookend for an era
Subjects
- Burns, John Horne, 1916-1953 -- Appreciation -- United States.
- Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012 -- Appreciation -- United States.
- Men -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
- Masculinity -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
- Male friendship -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
- Homophobia -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
- Homosexuality and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
- American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
- United States -- Social life and customs -- 1945-1970.